Diana Marie Burton
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Specialization | Economics and Policy |
| Education | Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, December 1991. M.S. - University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, December, 1986. M.S. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February, 1979. B.S. - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February, 1979. |
| Office Phone | (979) 845-2577 |
| d-burton@tamu.edu |
Courses
- FRSC 406 Forest Policy
- FRSC 314 Forest Economics and Valuation
- FRSC 620 Advances and Issues in Forest Science
- FRSC 614 Economic Analysis for Forest Resource Decisions
Research Areas
Utilization of statistical methods and econometric models to better understand the economics and political-economics of forestry and resource markets. Current projects examine market structure in forest products supply chain, statistical causation and cointegration techniques to examine forestry sector markets, spatial analysis of markets and market power exertion, application of political-economic models to better understand market structure and regulation.
Selected Publications
Burton, Diana M., H. Alan Love, Gokhan Ozertan, and Curtis R. Taylor. Property Rights Protection of Biotechnology Innovations. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 14, Issue 4, December 2005, pp. 779-812.
Burton, Diana M., H. Alan Love and Gordon C. Rausser. Stochastic Optimization of Policy Preferences, Applied Economics, Volume 36, Number 13, July 2004, pp. 1489-1499.
Bonnicksen, Thomas M. and Diana M. Burton. Development of Forest Policy in the United States. Chapter 1 in Introduction to Forest Science, Third Edition, Raymond A. Young and Ronald L. Giese, editors, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2003.
McCarl, Bruce A., Darius M. Adams, Ralph J. Alig, Diana Burton and Chi-Chung Chen. Effects of Global Climate Change on the U.S. Forest Sector: Response Functions Derived from a Dynamic Resource and Market Simulator, Climate Research, Volume 15, September 2000, pp.195-205.
Akleman, Derya G., David A. Bessler and Diana M. Burton. Modeling Corn Exports and Exchange Rates with Directed Graphs and Statistical Loss Functions, Chapter 18 in Clark Glymour and Gregory F. Cooper, eds., Computation, Causation & Discovery, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999, pp. 497-520.
Love, H. Alan and Diana M. Burton. A Strategic Rationale for Captive Supplies, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Volume 24, No.1, July 1999, pp. 1-18.
Burton, Diana M., Bruce A. McCarl, Claudio N.M. de Sousa, Darius M. Adams, Ralph Alig, and Steven M. Winnett. Economic Dimensions of Climate Change Impacts on Southern Forests in The Productivity and Sustainability of Southern Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Environment, Robert A. Mickler and Susan Fox, editors, Ecological Studies 128, Springer, New York, 1997, pp. 777-794.
Burton, Diana M. An Astructural Analysis of National Forest Policy and Employment, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 79, No. 3, August 1997, pp 964-974.
Burton, Diana M., and H. Alan Love. A Review of Alternative Expectations Regimes in Commodity Markets: Specification, Estimation and Hypothesis Testing Using Structural Models, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Volume 25, No. 2, October 1996, pp. 213-231.
Burton, Diana M. and Peter Berck. Statistical Causation: National Forest Policy in Oregon, Forest Science, Volume 42, No. 1, February 1996, pp. 86-92.
Service
Associate Head for Research and Graduate Studies, Department of Forest Science, Texas A&M University, 1999-2002.
Associate Editor, Forest Science, 1998-2004.